Configuring a release definition for a continuous deployment

A continuous deployment is a software engineering approach in which Teams deploy incremental changes to software as they are committed to a repository. It aims at building, testing, and releasing software faster and more frequently. A release definition already stores details of systems generating the artifacts that need to be deployed. A release definition can be configured to trigger a release when a new version of the artifact is available. In this recipe, you'll learn how to configure the release definition to trigger a new release when a new artifact version is available.

Getting ready

To edit a release definition, you need to be a member of the Release Administrators Group. These permissions are also available to the Project Administrators Group.

Scenario: The FabrikamTFVC Team has mapped FabrikamTFVC.Website and FabrikamTFVC.Services to the release definition of FabrikamTFVC Web. The Team now wants the FabrikamTFVC release...